Futurist Jim Carroll has quickly become recognized as your ‘go-to source’ for effective insight on what comes next, the strategies that you consider, and the leadership path you need to follow.
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My dad was a chemical engineer. He worked hard working with science – first, at a basic chemicals company; then, managing process and engineering at a liquor manufacturing company, and finally being in charge of a major company that manufactured specialty chemicals. Finally, he worked for the environmental management group of a provincial government in […]
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Did you miss it? My “23 Trends for 2023” series drew a lot of leadership attention. It covers everything from the ‘return to work’ to AI, digital transformation to techno-skepticism, business models that are shifting to choosing not to take part in an economic downturn, crazy ideas mainstreaming to the end of oil, rapid product […]
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“If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you’re doing it all wrong!” – Futurist Jim Carroll History has taught us that those who win during periods of economic uncertainty are those who double down on strategies for growth, accelerate R&D, focus their sales efforts on top customers, and maintain […]
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One of the most fascinating trends unfolding in our future involves the world’s oldest profession. No – not that one. Agriculture! Imagine skyscrapers full of plants. That’s what begins to happen when the marriage of radical concepts, technology, and a pressing need for innovative thinking collide together to provide for a very BIG trend. One […]
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The level of interest in my AI keynote presentation is nothing less than STAGGERING. I’ve never seen the world so captivated by a technology, so enamored by its opportunities, but also so worried about its potential impact. Organizations and associations are struggling to understand – what do we do now? I’m hitting a few groups […]
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How do you inspire 500 dentists from throughout the United Kingdom to adapt to the future, align with the future, and accelerate into what’s next? Through 10 Great Words – here are the closing moments from my keynote for Invisalign.
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“A BIG future demands BIG ideas based on a BIG imagination!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I released the next trend in my BIG Future: Long Term Trends Transforming our World series – The BIG Future: Brain Science and the Acceleration of Neurological Care. The third in the series (with many more to come over the next […]
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Just 10 years ago, I lost a very dear friend to the tragedy that is Alzheimer’s Disease. I am defined by the hope that we might see this, and many other neurological and nervous systems conditions vanquished in the years to come as the result of the acceleration of the science of the brain. That’s […]
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I just sent out my February update to all my speaker bureau partners – I’m represented by most of the major ones in the world and opened with this. It’s self-explanatory. Suffice it to say, this is what clients are looking for today! As we head into 2023, it’s pretty apparent there is a lot […]
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Energy in our electrical system used to be one-way and was mostly from carbon. We are now on the edge of an era in which generation is primarily based on renewables, is distributed, connected, intelligent, and part of a super big hyperconnected microgrid with a lot of batteries. Intelligent, connected smart energy takes us into a world in which our […]
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We might live longer. We will see the reduction, elimination, or perhaps eradication of diseases. We’ll fix broken bones with lab-grown materials. We will grow human organs for transplant. And in that context, we will be doing stuff tomorrow that seems like the science fiction of yesterday – because it is already starting to happen […]
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“Think BIG. Your future will thank you for it.” – Futurist Jim Carroll In times of volatility, people tend to become pessimistic about what’s next. But, the future doesn’t care – it marches on. The result is that we tend to see short-term trends but miss out on big long-term ones. We lose faith in […]
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Futurist Jim Carroll and Stand Up Drummer Tom Morley couldn’t be more different, and yet, they’re both the same! Jim has advised organizations like NASA and Disney on future trends; Tom was the drummer for the 80s’ bad Scritti Politti, and has done session work for the likes of the late David Bowie. Together, their […]
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I’ve been doing some cleanup of things and realized that this video I filmed out in San Francisco years ago still has an important message. I’m finding that it’s the CEOs of organizations that this message resonates with – they’re looking for detailed insight into their issues that can be delivered at an offsite event. […]
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Next month will mark 3 years since individuals and organizations began to go through the largest disruption they will ever know. With lockdowns, a staggering loss of human life, work-from-home, and the rapid emergence of a digital lifestyle and e-commerce infrastructure – we all had to learn to adapt quickly. As I close out this […]
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2023: Not hot: cryptocurrency, the Metaverse, Web 3.0, NFT’s, and more Hot: Fusion! AI! Generative technologies. The issues of the future always revolve around the hype of what’s hot, what’s not, what to expect – with little regard for the practicality of the trend or the timing by which the future might unfold. Fusion? There […]
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The youngest generation now entering the full-time workforce was born right after 9/11. They were six or seven years old during the global financial meltdown and recession of 2007-08. They’ve now lived through the global pandemic. And they’ve had a cellphone – most likely an iPhone – since they were ten years old, with social […]
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They’re everywhere! Little robots scurrying about, doing the jobs that humans don’t want to do! Despite the widespread techno-skepticism which I identified in Trend #1 – Technoskpeticism and Retiming the Future, it’s pretty clear that many technologies are having their moment. Robotics is clearly one of the most relevant, which is why it’s trend #20 of my […]
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This a message I just put out to my many speaker bureau partners worldwide. Futurists. Think of us as a tour guide to an increasingly complex, extremely fast future! That was the key message that this particular client wanted me to deliver – emphasizing it with a stage backdrop! And that’s what I do – and given […]
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We live in perilous, scary times – there are people around you who actually believe the wild conspiracies found in this image below. (And actually, if you go down the rabbit hole of the creator, you will find a store where you can buy a poster of it – and some equally crazy stuff.) The […]
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Part of the art of figuring out the future is knowing this – you’ll often find the real trend by looking beyond the hype to what’s actually happening! The hype? Virtual headset virtual reality, best epitomized by the bold but somewhat doomed bet by Mark Zuckerberg with his Meta initiative. The reality? The return of […]
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Globalization as we know it is over -and with that, one of the most basic assumptions which have driven the post-World War 2 economy has come to an end. That’s why trend #16 of my “23 Trends for 2023” is The Great Decoupling – what happens as the assumptions behind the success of globalization are […]
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Folks don’t want to talk about the pandemic anymore, but we should, for despite all the awful things that happened, and the massive divisions it has caused in society, one thing is clear: the way that organizations organize, learners learn, science sciences, and experts’ expertise, has forever changed. We learned a tremendous number of lessons […]
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If what you sell, who you sell it to, how you sell it, and essentially, what it actually is – you’ve got to change things. If who you are, how you learn, what you know, and what you need to know, you need to reinvent. That means you need to reimagine your future – because […]
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